Job summary
Employer heading
CENTRALISED ADVERT - BAND 5 NURSES - Foundation / Senior Staff Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 5
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
Foundation/Senior Staff Nurse – Band 5 - multiple vacancies
Locations: Oxford, Banbury, Oxfordshire
We would like to welcome you to join our team and be part of our world-renowned teaching hospital and centre of clinical excellence!
Our nursing teams are supported by an excellent framework of practice development, offering ongoing professional development where our nurses are empowered and instilled with a strong sense of professional pride, ensuring that we deliver the highest calibre of care to our patients!
Joining our team provides an opportunity for you to grow your career. Whether you are starting as a newly qualified or an experienced registered nurse, we have a variety of specialty areas for you to choose from, and career pathways tailored to you so you can achieve your ambitions and fulfil your potential.
Please note that applicants must hold full NMC registration or are due to complete their Nursing degree this year.
Main duties of the job
Whether you want to work in one of our fast-paced surgical wards, our leading cancer centre, our neurology and neurosurgery departments, excellent heart centre or refurbished and expanded emergency department, play a part in our regional major trauma centre or join one of our specialist medical departments, we have a vast array of options to develop and grow you as a nurse.
We have sites in Oxford and Banbury and satellite sites across the Thames Valley region for you to choose from.
We are RECRUITING for Foundation and Senior Staff Nurses across the whole Trust with key areas of focus for this month being:
Emergency Department and Emergency Assessment Unit (HGH)
Ward E Ortho (NOC)
Bone Infection Unit
Neuro Red
Theatres (Children's and Adult's)
Sobell House (Palliative Care)
Endoscopy
Surgery (Emergency and Elective)
Oncology: https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/working-for-us/campaigns/oncology-haematology/default.aspx
Start the conversation with us today about our opportunities – and continue your nursing journey by contacting one of our specialist leads to explore the many career options we have to offer you, or apply directly via the link below.
Please note that applicants must hold full NMC registration or are a graduate due to complete their Nursing degree this summer.
Please ensure you include in your supporting statement why you have chosen OUH/Oxford, and the three top areas where you would like to work.
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Interview date: 14th May 2024
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Demonstrate and promote a patient and family centred style of clinical practice.
- Be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care from admission to discharge.
- Accurately document and report to other members of the nursing team, multi-disciplinary team and family/carers regarding the care given to patients, and communicating changes as they occur.
- Respond to emergency situations with composure, maintaining patient safety and seeking immediate support, and supporting the patient, family/carers and other staff as required
- Identify and discuss patient needs with the team/staff, patients, carers and the multidisciplinary team. Be able to plan own workload.
- Demonstrate a problem solving approach to effectively execute planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised plans of care based on a person centred model of care.
- Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers and other staff, overcoming barriers to understanding and providing support during distressing or emotional events.
- Maintain patient dignity and confidentiality at all times.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registered / Due to complete course
Desirable criteria
- Previous Nursing experience
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lucy Constant
- Job title
- Recruitment and Retention Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Contacts for further information:
You can email on [email protected]
Address your query to:
Adannaya Emeh-Chobbah - Medicine, Rehabilitation and Cardiac Division
Carol Forde-Johnston – Neurosciences, Orthopaedics, Trauma, Specialist Surgery, Children's and Neonates Division
Valerie Zhande – Surgery, Women’s and Oncology Division
Lucy Constant – General enquiries
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